C (Lydian) Blues Scale
C Eb F (F#) G Bb C
C Chords
C Augmented C Major C Minor C Diminished
G# G G Gb
E E Eb Eb
C C C C
Typical Chords in a 12-Bar Blues Cycle
Chord* I
Measure 1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
[* I chord continues through the first 4 measures, until the change to IV in measure 5, etc.]
Listening
Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 4 ("Left Hand"): I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rD4QmOqNQ
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2PH0auTUU
Aaron Copland - Billy the Kid: Gun Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbVpss8ftE (at 13:00)
Harry Partch - US Highball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23iT28bZx2g
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L__jruvYuCg
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie: IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk (at 20:35)
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Bartok, Stravinsky, Varese, Webern, and Berg for the Music Historians -- and
Quiz 9 for same, with former two and latter one + Vaughan Williams, Ives, and Schoenberg...
the
morning
beginning
in
sun
and
fog;
high 63 locally and in Pleasant Hill (66th day of spring, .97 additional precip, for a beyond-the-pale 42.51 since July 1)
64 San Ramon
61 Pinole
-- grading papers before class,
afterwards
another
walk on Rolling Hills Trail,
now from Enfield-Barons
northwest
back
to
Sycamore Grove Junction,
views extending south over Parks Valley.
From here,
east on Windemere,
north
Tassajara,
eventually
wending
the
way
to
UC Berkeley
Music Library
for research
re The Opus Project presents Opus 52,
which will double as the 60th-Birthday Celebration Non-Taxing Non-Toxic II.
A
long,
wonderful
push
homeward
to
orchestrate
a
third page of John Cage's The Perilous Night: VI, as Op. 265...
